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Danny Worker
Partner
Chicago
550 West Adams Street
Suite 300
Chicago, Illinois 60661
Phone: 312.407.9921
Fax: 312.345.1778
Email: [email protected]
Danny Worker is the managing partner of Lewis Brisbois' Chicago office and vice-chair of the firm-wide Insurance Coverage & Bad Faith practice. Since his admission to the Illinois bar in 1987, Dan has tried or arbitrated over 50 cases to verdict in Illinois, Kansas, and North Carolina. He has provided advice on liability and coverage questions to insurance and other corporate clients, resulting in over twenty reported appellate and supreme court decisions in Illinois, Ohio, and New Mexico. With this breadth and depth of knowledge in handling complex cases, Dan is uniquely positioned to provide legal counsel on a national basis in liability and coverage litigation.
He has provided legal counsel to clients with coverage questions and liability in numerous different types of cases in over 27 states in his role as parachute or monitoring counsel. He has mediated cases to successful resolution in these various jurisdictions. The subject matter for these cases have involved issues of trademark, security fraud, antitrust, trucking, rail, premise, TCPA, FACTA, intentional torts, breach of contract, construction defect and injury cases. presenting complex questions of conflicting laws of multiple jurisdictions and federal statutes. Examples of the types of cases can be found here.
Increasingly, clients have sought his advice as parachute counsel on high exposure or complex claims nearing arbitration or trial involving liability and bad faith claims. Recently, Dan was brought in after discovery was completed on a trucking case, construction injury case and insurance coverage suit involving coverage for a joint venture.
Areas of practice have involved the following subject matters:
Coverage/Bad Faith
Defended bad faith claims involving advertising injury claims, employment, excess judgments, farm and ranch, FELA, first-party property claims, joint ventures, motor vehicle accidents, product liability, property claims, environmental, construction defect, indemnity, intentional act, additional insured, landlord/tenant and personal injury offenses.
Construction
Liability defense and coverage issues in defect and injury cases, involving multi-year construction projects; defective installation, delay damages, interpretation of contract law, consumer protection law, condominium law, punitive damages.
General Liability
Defense of motor vehicle, premises liability, construction defect, construction injury, agency, rail, breach of employment agreements, breach of contract.
Hospitality
Defended claims and provided coverage analysis in the hospitality industry for claims involving damages from delay to opening of casino due to faulty construction, food poisoning, construction defects at a Disney hotel, sub-leases for franchisees of restaurant properties, wrongful death,
Transportation
Defended claims and provided coverage analysis for motor vehicle cases, rail, FELA and aviation claims.